The level of scholarly interest and output on the subject of slavery has grown remarkably since the 1960s and shows little sign of abating. Its growth is such that the subjects of slavery and abolition command an academic journal in that name. That journal itself publishes an annual bibliography of writings on slavery from the ancient world to modern times. Transatlantic slavery invariably constitutes a central part of that bibliography. The book under review here complements these efforts by offering in one volume a handbook that seeks not only to chart trends in the historiography of slavery in the Americas but also to anticipate future research trajectories for the same. Unsurprisingly, given the width, depth and complexity of the field of research it covers, it is a very large book, encompassing some 33 chapters, plus the editors’ introduction. The writers of the chapters include a mix of established historians and emerging scholars. The chapters are divided into two main categories. The first deals with places, or more specifically the evolution of slavery under the different political jurisdictions that emerged in the Americas after Columbus. There are four chapters on Spanish America; one on Portuguese America or Brazil; three on the British, Dutch and French Caribbean, respectively; and two on the colonial and national history of the United States. The second and longer section, encompassing some 22 chapters, focuses on themes, methods, and sources. The subjects chosen cover the whole gamut of issues relating to recent scholarship on slavery in the Americas. They embrace Indian slavery; the Atlantic slave trade; slave demography; the economics of slavery; class, gender, and race; slave resistance, slave culture, and slave voices; the legal framework of slavery; religion and slavery; and pro- and anti-slavery thought, abolitionism and emancipation. A final chapter or epilogue, authored by Stanley Engerman, reflects on post-slavery adjustments in the Americas. Overall, the handbook provides in one volume as broad a treatment of the national context as well as thematic and other issues relating to slavery in the Americas as one could wish to find.